The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

[Adisa]

Significant portion of the so called "world's most advanced country" discussing civil war because a fraud might be impeached.
Would ignore but these lot are stupid and crazy enough to take up arms.

 

[sglowrider]

 

[Nogbadthebad]

I don't understand how that isn't illegal, directly profiting from tax payers.

It is, its called the Emoluments Clause.


He has been in breach of it every day since he became president, its why the ethics guy walked out.

GOP seem to be happy to simply ignore it.

 

[langster]

I'm surprised more attention isn't being paid to it. WaPo should be keeping a running total of how much money is being funneled into his business.

I bet they already are, or at least someone is. They will be storing it up just waiting to use it. I'm in the camp of people who believe he wasn't really a billionaire before he became President, but I bet he sure as feck will be by the time his time in office is over.

 

[Rado_N]

I bet they already are, or at least someone is. They will be storing it up just waiting to use it. I'm in the camp of people who believe he wasn't really a billionaire before he became President, but I bet he sure as feck will be by the time his time in office is over.

He's clearly profiting in a big way.

 

[Rado_N]

It is, its called the Emoluments Clause.


He has been in breach of it every day since he became president, its why the ethics guy walked out.

GOP seem to be happy to simply ignore it.

The Emoluments Clause relates to payments from foreign leaders doesn't it?

Not sure that having the government paying Trump companies violates that specific clause but it sure as shit should be in violation of some kind of ethics or corruption laws.

 

[sglowrider]

I just saw an interview with a West Virginian Trump supporter who is soooo happy with Trump: He took away the EPA regulations and as a result, 13,000 coal mining jobs have come back to the state since January 2017.

Then I checked. According to the Labor Bureau Stats -- it was 800 jobs only. Quite a big difference.

How do you fight against this sort of faked new idiots in the elections?

 

[Adisa]

I just saw an interview with a West Virginian Trump supporter who is soooo happy with Trump: He took away the EPA regulations and as a result, 13,000 coal mining jobs have come back to the state since January 2017.

Then I checked. According to the Labor Bureau Stats -- it was 800 jobs only. Quite a big difference.

How do you fight against this sort of faked new idiots in the elections?

There's not much you can do apart from insisting on the truth.
If people refuse to listen, that's on them and their community.

 

[sglowrider]

There's not much you can do apart from insisting on the truth.
If people refuse to listen, that's on them and their community.

Trump has already delegitimized the MSN. Its going to be a segment of the country with angry folks when they find out one day.

 

[Adisa]

Trump has already delegitimized the MSN. Its going to be a segment of the country with angry folks when they find out one day.

I saw a tweet claiming Trumps telephone transcripts were fake and that the wapo made them up.

 

[ravi2]

It is, its called the Emoluments Clause.


He has been in breach of it every day since he became president, its why the ethics guy walked out.

GOP seem to be happy to simply ignore it.

Not only the GOP, but his base clearly doesnt give a shit about any of this because they are currently "winning"

 

[ravi2]

There's not much you can do apart from insisting on the truth.
If people refuse to listen, that's on them and their community.

The problem is their "news" sources do not present or hide facts like these.

 

[GiddyUp]

I was at a bar with some buddies at the beginning of summer and heard a couple 60+ year old Trump loving jackasses discussing this. One was talking about how he doesn't move as well as he used to, the other telling him they don't have to be mobile, just efficient. I wanted to lean in and tell them they'd be fighting people like me, and I'm pretty efficient at 400-500 yards with a .30-06, so their asses wouldn't make it.

The kicker..? I know the people. They are the husbands of women I teach with. This was after our high school's graduation ceremony.

How are they going to get to Pennsylvania Ave. with no Koch brothers busing them in. If they rolled in to DC in a pickup with flags held high looking for a fight and took a wrong turn they would be shot at in minutes. All I can see is more Bundy ranch motherfeckers threatening our society over shit they just don't understand. Some incidents may well turn in to a Ruby Ridge situation but that's what they are asking for. You could block their online porn, that would really piss off these conservative counties.

 

[GiddyUp]

The problem is their "news" sources do not present or hide facts like these.

Certainly the biggest contributor to their ignorance. AM radio with no progressive voices is a travesty and Fox News is a fecking disgrace. Rupert Murdoch needs to feck off and let his sons run that channel to a decent level of decorum and honesty. If they think Hillary is a murderer because Hannity said so, imagine Shep or Wallace in that time slot reporting on Russian collusion within the trump campaign. There world would turn upside down, they would start sleeping with their wives instead of their sisters.

 

[langster]

How do you fight against this sort of faked new idiots in the elections?

I think it will eventually start to hit home when they sit and ask who exactly is getting these jobs? Because when they don't have them, then none of their friends have them or know anyone with them, then the penny may finally begin to drop.

 

[ravi2]

Certainly the biggest contributor to their ignorance. AM radio with no progressive voices is a travesty and Fox News is a fecking disgrace. Rupert Murdoch needs to feck off and let his sons run that channel to a decent level of decorum and honesty. If they think Hillary is a murderer because Hannity said so, imagine Shep or Wallace in that time slot reporting on Russian collusion within the trump campaign. There world would turn upside down, they would start sleeping with their wives instead of their sisters.

Its actually worse than that, most of them genuinely still think Trump won the popular vote and they are still complaining about the things they feel Obama and Hillary did.

Its a very "us" vs "them" mentality and as long as their side is perceived as winning then the ends justify the means.

 

[Kentonio]

The Emoluments Clause relates to payments from foreign leaders doesn't it?

Not sure that having the government paying Trump companies violates that specific clause but it sure as shit should be in violation of some kind of ethics or corruption laws.

Not leader, foreign states. Like the Trump Tower's apartments he rents to a Chinese state owned company.

 

[berbatrick]

I always find the notion that a bunch of overweight rednecks can take on trained soldiers amusing. How are they going to 'overthrow' the government if the best they can do is holed up in their trailers?

Trump voters rioting after he lost the election was one of the biggest fears. I heard some jokes about a new forms of riots- in mobility scooters

 

[InfiniteBoredom]

Trump voters rioting after he lost the election was one of the biggest fears. I heard some jokes about a new forms of riots- in mobility scooters

Vandalism and piecemeal violence is different than a full on civil war though.

At worst we'd have something like the Oklahoma City bombing in the case of rioting/incited violence.

 

[2cents]

Sessions talking now, seems they've nabbed some leakers.

 

[ravi2]

I think it will eventually start to hit home when they sit and ask who exactly is getting these jobs? Because when they don't have them, then none of their friends have them or know anyone with them, then the penny may finally begin to drop.

it doesnt matter what/who they ask...they will always find a reason to blame the Democrats for the reasons for the shit they are in

 

[Neutral]

Sessions talking now, seems they've nabbed some leakers.

 

[Raoul]

 

[Santi_Mesut_Alexis_87]

A true love story that went a bit under the radar

 

[langster]

it doesnt matter what/who they ask...they will always find a reason to blame the Democrats for the reasons for the shit they are in

They can blame who they like, deep down they will know Trump has lied to them and his promises meant shit. They may never admit it, and some might not ever blame The Donald, but enough will and they will silently vote elsewhere, they will want to save face as much as anyone else.



It's Friday isn't it? The stories have started early this week, are we in for another huge day of massive news bombs being dropped?

 

[Nucks]

I wouldn't take those militia lightly.... Some of them will be fairly well trained, and it's not really them vs the military/government I'd be worried about. It's them vs the 'other', and however that may manifest itself...

http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/01/refuge-of-scoundrels.html

 

[Rado_N]

Not leader, foreign states. Like the Trump Tower's apartments he rents to a Chinese state owned company.

Yes, but the original post was about the secret service leasing from Trump Tower.

 

[utdalltheway]

What lives are pot at risk when leaking on the Trump/Russia issue? Or is he referencing other leaks? What about Trump leaking intel to the Russians about Israeli spies/infiltrators in Syria?

 

[langster]

We've got the best maps.

 

[Kentonio]

Yes, but the original post was about the secret service leasing from Trump Tower.

Yeah, thats just common corruption I guess. Pretty sure it breaches ethics rules, but the administration doesn't seem to care.

 

[Carolina Red]

How are they going to get to Pennsylvania Ave. with no Koch brothers busing them in. If they rolled in to DC in a pickup with flags held high looking for a fight and took a wrong turn they would be shot at in minutes. All I can see is more Bundy ranch motherfeckers threatening our society over shit they just don't understand. Some incidents may well turn in to a Ruby Ridge situation but that's what they are asking for. You could block their online porn, that would really piss off these conservative counties.

I think they were more discussing thinning the "unwanted" population in our general area here in SC

 

[langster]

And we're off........................................

 

[Neutral]

D'Souza is of course a piece of shit. The whiteboards had all these talking points

Taxes!!, NAFTA, Offshoring, Illegal immigration, Crime, Welfare, America First...

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

The feck is a brown dude so happy about meeting a couple of notorious racists?

 

[Neutral]

The feck is a brown dude so happy about meeting a couple of notorious racists?

Let's say Dinesh decided a long time ago - there was a lot of money to be made from playing this role.

 

[Fergies Gum]

The feck is a brown dude so happy about meeting a couple of notorious racists?

Isn't he another hardcore Trump supporter?

 

[Red Dreams]

Let's say Dinesh decided a long time ago - there was a lot of money to be made from playing this role.

yup

 

[Edgar Allan Pillow]

The feck is a brown dude so happy about meeting a couple of notorious racists?

He's a christian conservative. He thinks that'll protect him from the racists. cnut.

 

[Carolina Red]

Looks like a checklist of executive orders on the right side

 

[unchanged_lineup]

D'Souza is of course a piece of shit. The whiteboards had all these talking points

Taxes!!, NAFTA, Offshoring, Illegal immigration, Crime, Welfare, America First...

This is like when Jeremy Hunt accidentally revealed a cabinet paper with "Hard Brexit means people fleeing the UK" on it when he was walking by the press photographers.